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Areas PL3213 and PL3214 are where new prospecting licences have ben granted
Technology Minerals Plc, the first listed UK company focused on creating a sustainable circular economy for battery metals, is pleased to announce the addition of seven new prospecting licences to its ground holding on its Leinster Lithium Property, Republic of Ireland - two in Kilkenny.
The licences have been granted for a period of six years.
Alex Stanbury, CEO of Technology Minerals, said: "We are pleased to add seven new prospecting licences to our Leinster Project, increasing our strategic foothold at the Leinster lithium property in South East Ireland by over 40 percent to 760km2. We consider these to be exciting additions to our portfolio and look forward to commencing further exploration to enhance our understanding of the project’s potential. Given the supply squeeze taking place for lithium globally, finding new sources of primary supply will be critical to help power the move to a carbon neutral economy.”
The most important use of lithium is in rechargeable batteries for mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras and electric vehicles. Lithium is also used in some non-rechargeable batteries for things like heart pacemakers, toys and clocks. It is also used in ceramics.
This addition brings the Company’s licence position to 23 licences covering a total of 760km2 of highly prospective geology with verified occurrences of spodumene-bearing lithium pegmatites. Initial reconnaissance at two localities on the new licences have already yielded two clusters of spodumene pegmatite float material with grades of up to 1.73% Li2O.
The seven new licences form a contiguous block with the Company’s previously issued PLA 1597 and extends the ground holding both to the NE and SW of the Knockeen and Carriglead spodumene-bearing boulder trains which were reported on that licence. Together this block of eight licences form the Company’s South Leinster Block
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